Netflix’s second docu-series about a Bollywood family, Roshans, like 2023 RomanticsHe has a clear roadmap and makes every effort not to deviate from it. Over four episodes, it offers an entertaining, informative and often candid overview of the lives and careers of three generations of the talented Roshan family, a family of two music directors, a super-successful filmmaker and a megastar.
The series stars music director Roshan Lal Nagrath (who dropped his surname after relocating from Gujranwala to Bombay via Lucknow and Delhi in the late 1940s), his two sons, actor-director Rakesh and composer Rajesh, and grandson Hrithik, One chapter each has been shared. One of the biggest stars of Hindi cinema today.
Together, the four chapters of Roshans Add a story that spans 75 years, starting soon after India gained independence and Roshan moving to Bombay with his wife, Ira Nagrath née Moitra, an All India Radio Delhi staff singer.
The question that can be asked is: do we really need to know? The answer is yes. In an era when Wikipedia entries and WhatsApp forwards often blur the line between credible and arbitrary, this is perfect for Mumbai film industry personalities who have the opportunity to set a record by making documentaries about themselves and their work. It is a means of trying. ,
This is a corrective exercise whose usefulness cannot be questioned. As audience members, each of us has the freedom to make what we want from the information given to us through mediation.
Evaluations based on personal recollections and recollections of industry colleagues may lack objectivity and cover only a selective base. Yet they are necessary. They work with the aim of dispelling misleading misinformation stories and replacing them with stories coming straight from the horse’s mouth.
Romantics It was a comprehensive documentary mini-series chronicling Yash Chopra’s long and eventful career. Roshans is markedly different as each of the four episodes is separate and self-contained, although the relationships between the quartet are clear and completely understandable.
For example, the career arc of Roshan, who moved the ball forward, was very different from that of Rajesh Roshan, who inherited his father’s musical talent and carried on the legacy of the family founder while absorbing the influences of a later era. . Similarly, Rakesh Roshan, who started out as an actor whose struggle did not end until he graduated in film production and direction, followed a completely different course to his son’s remarkable career.
Last episode, title Someone… found it, Is the longest. It centers on Hrithik Roshan. No one in the family, and perhaps in the entire industry, has started his career in such a dramatic manner. with say no…i love you (2000), he became an overnight sensation of unprecedented scale. Never before in living memory, or since, has a debutante sparked the kind of mass frenzy that Hrithik did in his very first attempt at stardom. This chapter tells about the sweat that was put into it.
It was as if Hrithik was snatching away something that his grandfather did not get in his lifetime. Despite his undeniable talent, and the many beautiful songs he composed in a career cut short by his death at the age of 50, Roshan’s contribution to the golden age of Hindi film music has never been fully acknowledged.
That aspect of Roshan’s story, which perhaps influences the next generation to some extent, comes to the fore in the early episodes which remind us of many of his evergreen hits and, clearly, give us a hint of how Roshan And why not move forward? To the top of the pile.
In the pre-credits segment of the opening chapter, Hrithik Roshan plays a song (keep adopting this and that too) in Roshan’s own voice – a rare archival recording of the rehearsal session, as told to the audience, obtained during filming by series director Shashi Ranjan, who conducts all the interviews himself.
The rest of the episode attempts to evaluate the main aspects of Roshan’s work as a music director through the perspectives of Asha Bhosle, Suman Kalyanpur, Sudha Malhotra, Javed Akhtar. Sonu Nigam, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and (as in a radio recording) Lata Mangeshkar, Amin Sayani and Kidar Sharma, the man who gave Roshan his first break in 1949 good and bigwhich was a box-office bomb that almost ended the musician’s career before it had even begun.
Music plays an important role in this episode and the sequel, dedicated to Rajesh Roshan, who honed his inherited achievements under the tutelage of music director duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal, whom he assisted for years. He was offered a choice between RD Burman and LP. He chose the latter option. He explains why.
Rajesh Roshan emerged prominent single father (1974) and Julie (1975) Over the next two and a half decades he delivered hit after hit, but, as his elder brother and professional colleague points out, nothing lasts forever.
In Rajesh’s case, history repeated itself. Despite his continued success, he remained a low-key, media-shy individual who was happy to stay away from the glare of the limelight. Apart from their professional side, the episode also sheds light on personal matters, and gives both Rajesh Roshan and his wife Kanchan a chance to express their views.
Rakesh Roshan’s struggle was much more serious. They arose out of a lack of real stardom that they felt they were entitled to. He kept trying to achieve success, even producing a few films himself to play the lead role, but had no success.
And then selfishAn indigenous remake of Kane and Abel, and a revenge saga embedded in Karan Arjun, a rebirth story, happened and the situation changed for Rakesh Roshan. A film director who could do no wrong, he came out of the despair of his repeated failures as an actor.
Containing interviews with Anil Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Ranbir Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan and Pinky Roshan, among many others, The Roshan Family has a wealth of information that was till now outside the realm of public knowledge.
In Roshan’s case, the docu-series features a re-enactment with the actors playing the music director, his wife and singer Ira Roshan, Kidar Sharma. Mukesh, his wife, Indeevar and Shailendra will narrate the stories of turning points in their careers and the creation of some of their most loved songs.
As far as the remaining three are concerned, they exist to help us understand their struggles. Rakesh Roshan and his family and friends were talking about the attack on them by unknown gunmen while she and Hrithik were enjoying the light. say no…love Jai success. He also talks about his cancer diagnosis.
Hrithik speaks with refreshing clarity about the “insurmountable obstacles” he had to overcome with the help of “incredible will driven by fear”. It was his fear, he says, that inspired him to become something despite debilitating physical challenges.
Now we definitely know this family of entertainers better. If nothing else, The Illuminations is an easy, entertaining watch that is generously filled with anecdotes, music, and memorable moments. Go for it this weekend.
